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SAN JOSE, Calif. Californians like the sound of "Sen. Condoleezza Rice" but apparently more than she does. The former U.S. secretary of state polled better than 17 other possible 2016 U.S. Senate candidates in a new Field Poll, including a popular Democrat who has already declared her candidacy for Barbara Boxer's soon-to-be-vacant seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris. But there's one problem for Republicans: She has no intention of jumping into the race. "Dr. Rice plans to stay at Stanford and continue life as a professor, and as such she has no plans to run for office in 2016," Georgia Godfrey, her chief of staff, said Tuesday. And the poll shows...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. Californians like the sound of "Sen. Condoleezza Rice" but apparently more than she does. The former U.S. secretary of state polled better than 17 other possible 2016 U.S. Senate candidates in a new Field Poll, including...

President Obama on Tuesday began a bid to convince congressional leaders — and the American people — of his strategy to defeat Islamic militants. But partisan divisions and political sensitivities in Congress make it unlikely lawmakers will agree on...

Sidney Harman, a philanthropist, polymath and pioneer in high-fidelity sound for homes and cars who tried to resuscitate an icon of American journalism when he bought Newsweek last year, has died. He was 92.
Harman died Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.,...

WASHINGTON - The confidential Justice Department memos criticized by Democrats as laying the legal foundation for Iraqi prisoner abuses were aimed mainly at showing that international treaties banning torture do not apply to al-Qaida and Taliban...

WASHINGTON - Images of U.S. soldiers forcing Iraqi prisoners to perform sex acts and to injure themselves as part of their abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison shocked members of Congress, who spent a grim afternoon yesterday viewing hundreds of new photos...